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#anywhere
*"Ideally, I’m at a nice desk in my home office or a library or a cafe somewhere, but I really try to train myself to write anywhere and at any time." Author Rebecca Kuang (1) <nml> bus stops, airplanes, soaking bathtubs, any couch in every room. driving, jitney riding, back of taxis, bed, beds, anywhere I rest my head, airport lounges, (hotel bars, very har-d) in backyards by the water, where serenity and serendipity, order me motionless, stilled, and yet, doggedly pursued by the emissions of the observable, anytime anyplace, while making love, while taking love giving love, in motion, at rest, reading yours, stumbling over fab quotes, in restaraunts, or sidewalk concrete streamings, on either paper or cloth napkins, (but not tablecloths) soft places, watery places, (but not pewed hard benches, unless the sermons are just god~awful) tears on face privately and publicly, Yankee Stadium, did I mention the subway? long drives on horrible highways, upon seeing beautiful people, little children, streets full of couples holding hands, arms around shoulders d r a p i n g and babies... theater, where the spoken lines enunciate/incite me, walking on the street and music earbuds issue me ten commandments, lyrics to analyze, words to satisfy, provocations that fallow were, now demanding a dueling satisfaction 'round children, anytime or anyplace, in fact, in deed, the most difficult place is at my desk, where the pressures of composition, brings an ill disposition, watching ballet dancers twist my soul, by watching the human body unfold, did I mention the Metropolitan Museum. Opera Transit Authority, yeah yeah pretty much anywhere inspirations lay littered on sidewalks, in the air, ***** underground stations, in motion, or in emotion, places and moments of devotion wherever they are detectable, in streams of conscious unconsciousness, walking by river esplanades, central parks, overhearing drama spoken on city streets, where things said, cannot be unheard, and never forgotten... *that pretty much covers all the places, most of all the fresh faces, and the tired old shuffling bodies inclusive* did I mention doctor's waiting rooms? especially in silent elevator trips of long duration, trapped within by **** looking human beings, and you compose witty ditty opening lines that die on vines unspoken or kids with outrageous, flashing lights on sneakers, inside department stores not much, but those Fifth Ave. windows at holiday seasons, plenty writing inspiration, bunch of bunches where the Towers fell, where blood innocent was felled, in snow, rain and slush, over good bad desserts, near Good Humor and Mr. Softee trucks, upon openings  of refrigerators with nothing but moldy cheese, or freezers overstocked with no room to breathe, in the dark to a symphony of tiny multi colored electronic dots, in rooms with tinny roofed ceilings during Florida hurricanes, walking down unending hallways with no exits signs for miles and miles well that about covers it, if you had a few spare weeks, you would find a poem from each and every one of these situational places, ***so the point well made, you write in you head, which you take pretty much everywhere*** >nml< on the couch, where else? 6:12am
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Sep 7, 2025
Sep 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM UTC
Part One: train myself to write anywhere and at any time
*"Ideally, I’m at a nice desk in my home office or a library or a cafe somewhere, but I really try to train myself to write anywhere and at any time." Author Rebecca Kuang (1) <nml> bus stops, airplanes, soaking bathtubs, any couch in every room. driving, jitney riding, back of taxis, bed, beds, anywhere I rest my head, airport lounges, (hotel bars, very har-d) in backyards by the water, where serenity and serendipity, order me motionless, stilled, and yet, doggedly pursued by the emissions of the observable, anytime anyplace, while making love, while taking love giving love, in motion, at rest, reading yours, stumbling over fab quotes, in restaraunts, or sidewalk concrete streamings, on either paper or cloth napkins, (but not tablecloths) soft places, watery places, (but not pewed hard benches, unless the sermons are just god~awful) tears on face privately and publicly, Yankee Stadium, did I mention the subway? long drives on horrible highways, upon seeing beautiful people, little children, streets full of couples holding hands, arms around shoulders d r a p i n g and babies... theater, where the spoken lines enunciate/incite me, walking on the street and music earbuds issue me ten commandments, lyrics to analyze, words to satisfy, provocations that fallow were, now demanding a dueling satisfaction 'round children, anytime or anyplace, in fact, in deed, the most difficult place is at my desk, where the pressures of composition, brings an ill disposition, watching ballet dancers twist my soul, by watching the human body unfold, did I mention the Metropolitan Museum. Opera Transit Authority, yeah yeah pretty much anywhere inspirations lay littered on sidewalks, in the air, ***** underground stations, in motion, or in emotion, places and moments of devotion wherever they are detectable, in streams of conscious unconsciousness, walking by river esplanades, central parks, overhearing drama spoken on city streets, where things said, cannot be unheard, and never forgotten... *that pretty much covers all the places, most of all the fresh faces, and the tired old shuffling bodies inclusive* did I mention doctor's waiting rooms? especially in silent elevator trips of long duration, trapped within by **** looking human beings, and you compose witty ditty opening lines that die on vines unspoken or kids with outrageous, flashing lights on sneakers, inside department stores not much, but those Fifth Ave. windows at holiday seasons, plenty writing inspiration, bunch of bunches where the Towers fell, where blood innocent was felled, in snow, rain and slush, over good bad desserts, near Good Humor and Mr. Softee trucks, upon openings  of refrigerators with nothing but moldy cheese, or freezers overstocked with no room to breathe, in the dark to a symphony of tiny multi colored electronic dots, in rooms with tinny roofed ceilings during Florida hurricanes, walking down unending hallways with no exits signs for miles and miles well that about covers it, if you had a few spare weeks, you would find a poem from each and every one of these situational places, ***so the point well made, you write in you head, which you take pretty much everywhere*** >nml< on the couch, where else? 6:12am
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You told me you loved me amongst the crowd of a Steelers game while we were searching for a hot dog and soda. Not the most enchanting, but perhaps I watch too many rom-coms for my own good. I think I've always just romanticized each aspect of a relationship and all the major moments based on what media told me meant the most. Opening my eyes now, those special moments aren't always at a candlelit dinner or by a fireplace, many times they are at a cookout with your friends or the zoo with my nieces and nephews. The beauty of feeling something so deeply that you just have to say it, even if it's in front of a porta ***** at a church festival or the stoplight on your way home, that's the real love that people feel. So when I tell you I love you while sitting on my couch on a random Monday night, know that I mean it. Know that every muscle in my body wanted to tell you because I didn't wait for candlelight or an array of stars, instead I told you in the most real way, our way. We will still have those romantic moments on a boat under the moonlight or the fireplace of an old house, but we will also have those passionate moments where we couldn't keep our feelings in anymore and the most appropriate place just happens to be a crowded train on the way downtown and an airport bar. I love you and I'll say it anywhere. -t.s.
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Feb 22, 2024
Feb 22, 2024 at 9:55 PM UTC
I'll Say It Anywhere
(Chorus) ...and she said, "We don't have to stand it here, we can go anywhere Find a place to call a home and build our storybook future there If not here then where? Can't we find that anywhere? A destination with no journey seems to me to be unfair Some god, somewhere, already answered my prayer Cause I'm here and you're there..." ©2023
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Dec 19, 2023
Dec 19, 2023 at 4:52 PM UTC
~•§•~ 🎼If Not Here Then Where?🎼 ~•§•~
*the worlds illness so pervasive, the pandemic horror stories are my-brain-endemic, so pervasive, every ache, tremor, is now virally suspected, proof that my customized angel of death has arrived, I’m seizing up. the latest wave session of walking depression, conflates both sides of my brain, the intersection at right, left, the intellect is mowed down with woe-down, by the stark reality of emergency facts, apex or art, looking at months and lives ever trembilzed. don’t even bother like I did at early firsts, when? by asking where shelter, the raison d'être of my existence, the poetry no longer synapses, the currents loop over and over, the intellectual processes neutered by sadness virus un-encountered. once upon a time I thought, even believed, that my life’s inquiry, was answerable, with customized solutions for each, but now, don’t believe in shelter of any kind, no, acknowledging I’m so lost, no recovery efforts, will be attempted.
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Apr 12, 2020
Apr 12, 2020 at 1:44 PM UTC
there is no shelter anywhere
Rollin through lights Wasting time I wonder where we'll go Yeah we're flyin flyin by
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Oct 20, 2019
Oct 20, 2019 at 6:03 PM UTC
flyin by
your thoughts and prayers **** highly ineffective, bluntly, they are defective ain’t rendering no mo’ to god and his good old timey thing, righteous slaughtering of the innocents, such fun for what does He care what we got to do is do something about on it earth, time has come up, the hurricane has begun, and world is shaking from the movements in our bones, for now is the hour when we sail to the shore, and until we are done, the sun will not respect our faces accept this introspective invective, politely keep them guttural BS noises to yourself, you know who’s the guilty ones, that would be me and you write to the congressmen, who have been shot, asking what ya got, forever protection, the crazies know where you live, state senators from places they don’t you represent, all that we adjudged them lazy guilty, guilty of laziness, and don’t forget to add a p.s. we adjudge ourselves guilty as well, too many knew in advance, the dangerous ones, who were lurking, them waiting, us in desperation hoping, it wouldn’t be happening then delaying one more time all over again *”Oh the foes will rise With the sleep in their eyes And they'll **** from their beds and think they're dreamin' But they'll pinch themselves and squeal And know that it's for real The hour that the ship comes in. Then they'll raise their hands Sayin' we'll meet all your demands But we'll shout from the bow your days are numbered And like Pharaoh's tribe They'll be drownded in the tide And like Goliath, they'll be conquered.”* (Bob Dylan) 8/4/19 12:10 there is no shelter anywhere from madness for the madness is ours, inside, and we have learnt to live with it’s reoccurring. Why?
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Aug 4, 2019
Aug 4, 2019 at 12:17 PM UTC
your thoughts and prayers **** (there is no shelter anywhere)
your thoughts and prayers **** highly ineffective, bluntly, they are defective ain’t rendering no mo’ to god and his good old timey thing, righteous slaughtering of the innocents, such fun for what does He care what we got to do is do something about on it earth, time has come up, the hurricane has begun, and world is shaking from the movements in our bones, for now is the hour when we sail to the shore, and until we are done, the sun will not respect our faces accept this introspective invective, politely keep them guttural BS noises to yourself, you know who’s the guilty ones, that would be me and you write to the congressmen, who have been shot, asking what ya got, forever protection, the crazies know where you live, state senators from places they don’t you represent, all that we adjudged them lazy guilty, guilty of laziness, and don’t forget to add a p.s. we adjudge ourselves guilty as well, too many knew in advance, the dangerous ones, who were lurking, them waiting, us in desperation hoping, it wouldn’t be happening then delaying one more time all over again *”Oh the foes will rise With the sleep in their eyes And they'll **** from their beds and think they're dreamin' But they'll pinch themselves and squeal And know that it's for real The hour that the ship comes in. Then they'll raise their hands Sayin' we'll meet all your demands But we'll shout from the bow your days are numbered And like Pharaoh's tribe They'll be drownded in the tide And like Goliath, they'll be conquered.”* (Bob Dylan) 8/4/19 12:10 there is no shelter anywhere from madness for the madness is ours, inside, and we have learnt to live with it’s reoccurring. Why?
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I wonder what it would be like to live Somewhere else Without him. I tell him. He makes a face. "You're not going anywhere." The car keeps moving.
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Nov 10, 2018
Nov 10, 2018 at 3:27 PM UTC
Anywhere
A road made by walking where you shouldn't. Told not to by the full throat, taken aback by paths desired away. A brand apart from the rest, but so, too, the others can follow. Heels that graze floors in an apathetic stutter strut. A stepped up out of time gangliness of lanky mellow. Walk where one may, walk where one wishes.
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Nov 4, 2018
Nov 4, 2018 at 3:34 AM UTC
Got Lost Once
Take me somewhere, Anywhere, Better than this. I'm ready to go. I'm ready to run. I've got the scissors To clip my leash. I've got the key to My cage. I'm ready to pack My past And set my sights On the future. I'm ready to live For now. I'm ready for the freedom. Let me run. Take me somewhere, Anywhere, Better than this.
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Oct 11, 2018
Oct 11, 2018 at 8:59 AM UTC
Somewhere
Left on the street. Carassed in each others arms. Shivering. Is it bad that I want to joins you's The rain sidewalk past. No discomfort could intrude. As moments like these.. Linger. As it's everything we want. But can never have. Tripped over by our own security. Judgement leaves us homeless. To the moments shared. With the ones.. Who make us laugh. When the sun doesnt shine. They look warm. Tucked in their own world. Smiling. So is their, room for one more? As each day is lived. When you've got someone to love. So can I snuggle in. And pretend.
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Oct 2, 2018
Oct 2, 2018 at 7:57 AM UTC
Room for one more?
So. Love on a piece of crumpled paper, sitting on the couch. Bare and Obvious. Dirt on faces and calves. Dust on clothes made of rags, rage, sorrow, disease and fear. We refused to give this paper away. Afraid we would get ***** afraid we would get humiliated because no one else would give it. .This paper, still crumpled in our hands. We refuse to give it to those who didn't deserve it. we refuse to give it to those who need it. we all need it. So this love sits on the couch of our hands. waiting. obvious. waiting to dip it's way into hearts...
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Jul 9, 2018
Jul 9, 2018 at 7:07 AM UTC
Sofa
Bull eve me (Adam, whether existence fact or fiction), his immediate legion heirs whole heartedly partook to regale no Joe king paternal prominence, sans legendary, fraternity, and consanguinity subsequently implemented faux pas threatening Nittany Lions role attested by this papa, a curmudgeon resident of the North Pole burrowed deep within tundra necessitated drilling permafrost black hole son, which boring task found me dissatisfied, asper penultimate existential goal thus, I decided to sell coal to New Castle, transported within loco motive conveyance doubling up as fish bowl decimated crossing Arctic great barrier reef Atoll lauded me with mouthy gift horses, (one Mister Ed, adore hubble hoof only high saddled Equus caballus neighing boar) feted me, a hay er raising chore followed by Mister Barns Noble encore generation standing ovation, a deafening applause resonated across the floor then an electrifying speech by (plan net fitness diehard) Albert Gore describing ****** pillaging, And looting dip lore able incursions as heath n (moor or less opprobrious upon poor sacred Mother Nature whimpering and softly doth roar ring, now treated like a ***** telltale global devastation impossible to ignore agog pollution extant across entire world wide web bog gulls restorative legislation, when offal debris doth clog estuaries, where watersheds habitat choking with despair, thus imperative to grab hold collective figurative (corny as this may seem) ear cuz jackknifed, irreparable, horrible gnashing fear fully betokens catastrophic environmental fractured glare ring ****** impailment here and everywhere.
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Jun 17, 2018
Jun 17, 2018 at 2:12 AM UTC
Continent Wide Yogic Carpet Ride Unveils Qualm
Bull eve me (Adam, whether existence fact or fiction), his immediate legion heirs whole heartedly partook to regale no Joe king paternal prominence, sans legendary, fraternity, and consanguinity subsequently implemented faux pas threatening Nittany Lions role attested by this papa, a curmudgeon resident of the North Pole burrowed deep within tundra necessitated drilling permafrost black hole son, which boring task found me dissatisfied, asper penultimate existential goal thus, I decided to sell coal to New Castle, transported within loco motive conveyance doubling up as fish bowl decimated crossing Arctic great barrier reef Atoll lauded me with mouthy gift horses, (one Mister Ed, adore hubble hoof only high saddled Equus caballus neighing boar) feted me, a hay er raising chore followed by Mister Barns Noble encore generation standing ovation, a deafening applause resonated across the floor then an electrifying speech by (plan net fitness diehard) Albert Gore describing ****** pillaging, And looting dip lore able incursions as heath n (moor or less opprobrious upon poor sacred Mother Nature whimpering and softly doth roar ring, now treated like a ***** telltale global devastation impossible to ignore agog pollution extant across entire world wide web bog gulls restorative legislation, when offal debris doth clog estuaries, where watersheds habitat choking with despair, thus imperative to grab hold collective figurative (corny as this may seem) ear cuz jackknifed, irreparable, horrible gnashing fear fully betokens catastrophic environmental fractured glare ring ****** impailment here and everywhere.
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I don't want to see you later, or in heaven or hell, or anywhere in between.
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Apr 1, 2018
Apr 1, 2018 at 12:15 AM UTC
Anywhere
Your hands were tired of holding me together, holding me to ground, keeping me safe from myself and my fate. And when you were no longer there I could go anywhere in the world, live different lives, and see the world anew. Wait for the death of my sorrow. Or **** myself with what I am. All this I have found at the cost of losing earth, me, and you, to name a few.
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Mar 20, 2018
Mar 20, 2018 at 2:35 AM UTC
Name a few
I sit here not over there with the smart kids I sit here not over there with the "cool" kids I sit here not over there with the happy kids I sit here not over there with the emo kids I sit here not over there with the dorky kids I sit here not over there with the gamer kids        I don't fit in anywhere
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Mar 15, 2018
Mar 15, 2018 at 11:22 AM UTC
I sit here not over there
My vagabond heart skipped with every step taken, As if the wind whipping around the trees whispered, “Go find your ‘Great Perhaps.’”
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Jan 25, 2018
Jan 25, 2018 at 10:49 AM UTC
Wanderlust
To you to you what I wants to say to you; air sea sky blue clouds fluffy as sleep with you, oh with you My arms never tire of you inside them how do I stand the separation when you leave me, when you leave me, take yourself out of me Hug you so close like playdough to smoosh my blue into your red swirling, that is how I smell you smell me I didn't know this could be so true, this swelling, sighing death defying love of ours like bears Animal, I devour you In ankle deep icy rivers I paw you, nuzzle you shed your skin lie with you naked dangerously I come with you anywhere you want to go
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Sep 20, 2017
Sep 20, 2017 at 7:20 PM UTC
love like bears
Light likes to think its the fastest thing, That it can travel anywhere and be the first there, Light believes nothing can beat it to its destination. But no matter how fast or far light goes it is always beaten, because darkness has always got there first and is always waiting for the light.
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Mar 9, 2016
Mar 9, 2016 at 11:46 AM UTC
Light and Dark